"Your Majesty!" Li Guodong shouted anxiously.

When people outside heard the shouts, Wang Chengen rushed into the bedroom with his female family and important officials of the court.

Li Guodong stood up and knelt in front of the Emperor Daxing with everyone. Although he did not get the result he wanted and let Princess Kunxing succeed in becoming the governor, it was a good result to let Zhang Yan and Zhou Hou temporarily take charge of the government affairs. With Chongzhen's character, it was naturally impossible for the most talented Zhu Yujian to be the emperor. After all, Zhu Yujian secretly raised an army to Beijing to serve the king, which had offended Chongzhen. Zhu Youlang was obviously a foolish and incompetent guy, and he even raised an army to rebel against him. Chongzhen would definitely not be able to consider Zhu Yujian.

As for the other Zhu family royal families, Chongzhen didn't consider it anymore. He didn't want Princess Kunxing to be the governor, so he allowed Li Guodong's wolf ambition to succeed, so he chose Empress Zhang Yan and Empress Zhou to temporarily manage the government affairs as the Empress Dowager.

Since the empress dowager was in power, why should she bring Zhang Yan with her? After all, Chongzhen was still worried about his wife's abilities. Zhou Hou did not have much ability. If only Zhou Hou was acting in the court affairs, then this woman with neither IQ nor EQ would soon become a puppet under the attack of Li Guodong and Princess Kunxing. Zhang Yan was an important force in helping Chongzhen overthrow the eunuch party back then, and Zhang Yan was still a woman with certain abilities. Chongzhen was very relieved about his sister-in-law.

Although Princess Kunxing failed to become a ruling country, for Li Guodong, Zhang Yan and Zhou Hou were always much better than Zhu Yujian or Zhu Youlang to succeed to the throne. Zhang Yan and Zhou Hou could remember Li Guodong's life-saving grace no matter what the Huai Army wanted to do in the future, they would continue to support him like Chongzhen supported Li Guodong.

Li Guodong secretly thought in his heart: Since Empress Dowager Zhang Yan and Empress Dowager Zhou are acting in the government affairs, as long as Zhang Yan is taken down, everything will be easy in the future. Zhang Yan, who is already forty-three years old, is still a big beauty. Speaking of which, forty-three years old is not considered old. Many big stars in their later generations are in their forties, and many rich people are rushing to marry.

Thinking of this, Li Guodong secretly looked at Zhang Yan, who was kneeling side by side with him from the corner of his eyes. She saw that her silhouette was very beautiful, and her whole body exuded a mature woman. To be honest, Zhang Yan is more beautiful than Princess Kunxing. If she was in the future, she would definitely be a top star. If she was wrong, how could the top star have the temperament of Zhang Yan?

After completing a series of rituals, Shi Kefa asked: "Have your Majesty left a last order?"

Wang Chengen stood up, took out an imperial edict from his sleeve, opened his sharp voice and shouted: "The last emperor's will!"

Everyone knelt down one after another, and heard Wang Chengen recite the will. Shi Kefa was the first to ask: "According to the ancestral system of our dynasty, women should not be involved in politics. Isn't this will of the late emperor contrary to the ancestral system?"

Li Guodong immediately retorted: "Master Shi Ge, when the late Emperor Wanli ascended the throne at a young age, wasn't the Empress Dowager Li's temporary position? If you have any questions, should you pass the Empress Dowager Li's hands first?"

"But that was when the late Emperor Wanli was young, and the empress dowager raised the late Emperor and temporarily managed the government. But now, where are the three princes of Your Majesty? The country cannot be without a king for a day, and one person should be selected from the royal family as the governor. If the prince cannot return south within a few years, then the governor will be the governor." Shi Kefa said righteously.

Wang Chengen said angrily: "Master Shi Ge, how dare you disobey the will of the late emperor?"

"I dare not resist the order, but I just feel that it is not in line with the ancestral system." Shi Kefa defended him.

Wang Chengen roared angrily: "This Ming Dynasty belongs to the Emperor! As long as our family is still there for a day, you traitors will never allow you traitors to give the Emperor's ancestors to outsiders!"

Shi Kefa hurriedly said, "Eunuch Wang, I am not going to give Your Majesty the country to outsiders, but I am temporarily supervising the country by the royal family. When the prince returns to the south, I will return the country to the prince."

Wang Chengen said: "Don't Master Shi Ge know about Emperor Jingtai?"

The imperial party led by Li Guodong, Wang Chengen, Zhang Yan and others must resolutely implement Chongzhen's will. Qian Qianyi naturally stood on the side of the imperial party. The civil officials of the court were divided into two factions, one insisted on selecting one from the royal family as the governor, and the other was on the side of Li Guodong.

During the Chongzhen period, the tomb had not been built, so it would take a long time to wait until Chongzhen was buried. Li Guodong decided to let the factory guards resolutely capture the murderer within this period. It is estimated that as long as the mastermind behind the scenes were found, the opposition voices in the court would be reduced by half. According to Li Guodong's judgment, many of the officials who firmly demanded that the royal family serve as the surrogate state were related to Chongzhen's murder.

After a series of tedious ceremonies, Li Guodong left the palace and assisted the factory guards to continue to solve the case.

News of Emperor Chongzhen's grand ceremony had spread throughout Nanjing City. The city was covered with plain silhouettes, and white curtains were hung in the Huai Army camp outside the city, and the whole city mourned Emperor Chongzhen's grand ceremony.

Although the Jinyiwei yamen was also covered in plain clothes, the case was solved without stopping because of the emperor's grand ceremony. Instead, Zhang Shuheng seized the time.

The case gradually emerged, and the regicide case was indeed related to people in the court. Most of the people involved in this case were traditional land gentry from Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places, as well as officials from these places. Some of them had connections with the Qing Dynasty and were secretly promoting the matter.

Zhang Shuheng had already made a name for the entire case: those people bought the little eunuch who swept the floor in Qianqing Palace, and then asked the little eunuch to secretly bring the clothes of the dead of the plague into the palace, and took advantage of the opportunity to sweep the floor to wipe the dirty clothes in the bedroom. From a scientific point of view, this is a biological weapon attack, and the virus is left in the bedroom.

The little eunuch did this not only once or twice, but it started half a year ago. After repeated infections, Chongzhen finally fell seriously ill.

Later, these people bribed the officials of the Imperial Hospital, obtained fake waist cards, and tampered with the medicine given to Chongzhen. Although the added things and the medicine themselves were non-toxic, these things combined together became poisons that aggravated Emperor Chongzhen's condition. In this way, these people killed Emperor Chongzhen.

Next, the Jinyiwei began to move, and soon they found physical evidence.

Although Man Qingxiu, who had mixed into the Jinyiwei, had committed suicide by taking poison, the Jinyiwei still found a trace of clues.

Under the night, the entire city was immersed in the grief of the emperor's journey. As night fell, a group of men in black rushed straight into a courtyard hidden deep in the alley from four different directions.

The city of Nanjing, which was so dark that it was terrible that the people in black came outside the yard and flew up to the wall with ropes. Then a group of men in black climbed onto the wall and turned over and jumped into the courtyard.

"Who?" a man holding a lantern patrol night shouted.

"Swoosh" answered him with a sound of a crossbow arrow breaking through the air, and a crossbow arrow pierced into the man's throat.

"Kill!" Zhang Shuheng, who led the team, yelled loudly.

The Jinyiwei rushed towards various targets quickly, and a bloody storm immediately broke out in the large yard, and the guys who were trying to resist fell one by one under the Xiuchun Sword.

In another direction, the Jinyiwei who came over the wall from the other side went straight to the inner courtyard.

In the bedroom of the inner courtyard, three tough men had not yet got up and took up their weapons to resist or commit suicide. The Jinyiwei rushed into their bedroom. The three guys didn't even have time to commit suicide and were tied tightly by the Jinyiwei.

Zhang Shuheng walked to the three big men. He pulled one of the guys' hair, but pulled off the guy's wig, revealing a big bald head with a rat-tail braid.

"It's indeed Jiannu! Take it away!" Zhang Shuheng shouted.

These Qing army's meticulous work were also very stubborn, but after they were taken to the Jinyiwei Zhao Prison, Zhang Shuheng interrogated the new tortures invented by Li Guodong and the Iron Lady. Most of these people could not support it and confessed them one after another.
Chapter completed!